Dr. Noha Shawki, professor in the Department of Politics and Government, published two co-authored articles in 2023: “Building Solidarity in the Slow Food Movement,” co-authored with Dr. Gina Hunter and published in The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food (IJSAF), and “Understanding polycentrically organized movements: An analysis of the Slow Food and Fair Trade movements in Europe,” co-authored with Dr. Melissa Schnyder and published in the Journal of Civil Society.
The first article explores the intentional efforts by a highly diverse transnational social movement, the Slow Food movement, to build meaningful forms of solidarity among movement participants across racial, ethnic, North-South, and other divides and the inequities that they entail. The publication uses interview data collected through key-informant interviews with individuals from different parts of the world involved in or working in partnership with Slow Food.
The second article explores the extent to which the Slow Food and the fair trade movements in Europe are lifestyle movements, as they have been described in the past, and the ways in which they can also be considered as more explicitly political movements seeking transformative change. The publication uses interview data to provide more nuanced perspectives on the question of how these two movements can be understood and characterized, perspectives which aim to reflect the complexity and the varied activities of both movements in the European context.
